Aches & Pains
May. 5th, 2019 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI haven't been feeling too hot physically the last few days. I did a five-mile run this morning at around a 9:50 pace so I feel good about that, but I have a lot of hurtiness that isn't explainable by the stormy weather we're having. It's making the power flicker in a seriously annoying way, though. Power "blips" long enough to reset everything but then it comes right back. Everything resets, Google Home makes its "wake up" tone, then the power goes BLIP again.
So a while back I got the Mirena IUD and it's been absolutely the best thing since toast. I picked it because it had the potential to stop menstrual cycles. That alone was worth the pain and expense to me. My periods weren't objectively bad, but they were long, heavy, and usually accompanied by intense cramping - nothing anyone had ever considered bad. I personally have hated periods ever since I started having them, and have been on the lookout for ways to stop them. Anyway, the Mirena was installed about four years ago, and it has a three to five year "life," but my gynecologist says mine should be good for one more year. I am, however, having some breakthrough menstrual symptoms, including that fun and wonderful ovary pain. Not cramping - my ovaries just hurt. Like a constant ache that usually stays around a two or three on the 1 - 10 pain scale. I know precisely where both of the little fuckers are because they hurt constantly. I should perhaps mention this to a doctor, but I doubt if anyone cares, and with any luck in another eight years I'll be menopausal.
If the lights will stay on I'd like to make an early dinner and finish prepping stuff for tomorrow's lunch. I'm packing a bento again. Not an authentic Japanese one, but using the principle of bento to pack a compact, nutritious lunch in a little box. I'll post a photo if anyone's interested. I'm planning a longer trip into Jacksonville, which is why I'm taking lunch with me. Less temptation to eat crappy food while I'm out.
We recently had Crowley's seven year adoption day. I guess that makes him seven years old, though we don't know exactly when he was born. Seven years ago he was one of a litter of kittens rescued at the local farmer's market, and a lady who ran the stall I was shopping at had him a little bed in a tomato crate. He must have been around two weeks old because his eyes were barely open. But he could see well enough to identify a sucker of a human and he crawled out of the box and up the leg of my jeans, and I took him home and started bottle feeding him. The lady at the market could only get dairy milk, so I had to stop and buy kitten formula, and we weren't even sure he'd make it. He was covered with fleas, his eyes were gunky and gross, and we had no idea how long the litter had been out there. It turned out Crowley was the only one who lived. He's a good poofy.
Since the lights have stayed on for almost twenty minutes I may start making food. I can at least boil water for rice, and even if the power goes out again the residual heat will keep it cooking. I'm having Mongolian seitan and broccoli, and later I'll be making butterscotch blondies. I'm going to try substituting cocoa butter for coconut oil because I am not a coconut oil fan and I don't want to sub vegetable oil, and I have a bag of cocoa butter anyway. The only "problem" may be the blondies being of a denser, firmer texture at room temperature, but I don't think that will actually be a bad thing. Plus the cocoa flavor should work really well.
So a while back I got the Mirena IUD and it's been absolutely the best thing since toast. I picked it because it had the potential to stop menstrual cycles. That alone was worth the pain and expense to me. My periods weren't objectively bad, but they were long, heavy, and usually accompanied by intense cramping - nothing anyone had ever considered bad. I personally have hated periods ever since I started having them, and have been on the lookout for ways to stop them. Anyway, the Mirena was installed about four years ago, and it has a three to five year "life," but my gynecologist says mine should be good for one more year. I am, however, having some breakthrough menstrual symptoms, including that fun and wonderful ovary pain. Not cramping - my ovaries just hurt. Like a constant ache that usually stays around a two or three on the 1 - 10 pain scale. I know precisely where both of the little fuckers are because they hurt constantly. I should perhaps mention this to a doctor, but I doubt if anyone cares, and with any luck in another eight years I'll be menopausal.
If the lights will stay on I'd like to make an early dinner and finish prepping stuff for tomorrow's lunch. I'm packing a bento again. Not an authentic Japanese one, but using the principle of bento to pack a compact, nutritious lunch in a little box. I'll post a photo if anyone's interested. I'm planning a longer trip into Jacksonville, which is why I'm taking lunch with me. Less temptation to eat crappy food while I'm out.
We recently had Crowley's seven year adoption day. I guess that makes him seven years old, though we don't know exactly when he was born. Seven years ago he was one of a litter of kittens rescued at the local farmer's market, and a lady who ran the stall I was shopping at had him a little bed in a tomato crate. He must have been around two weeks old because his eyes were barely open. But he could see well enough to identify a sucker of a human and he crawled out of the box and up the leg of my jeans, and I took him home and started bottle feeding him. The lady at the market could only get dairy milk, so I had to stop and buy kitten formula, and we weren't even sure he'd make it. He was covered with fleas, his eyes were gunky and gross, and we had no idea how long the litter had been out there. It turned out Crowley was the only one who lived. He's a good poofy.
Since the lights have stayed on for almost twenty minutes I may start making food. I can at least boil water for rice, and even if the power goes out again the residual heat will keep it cooking. I'm having Mongolian seitan and broccoli, and later I'll be making butterscotch blondies. I'm going to try substituting cocoa butter for coconut oil because I am not a coconut oil fan and I don't want to sub vegetable oil, and I have a bag of cocoa butter anyway. The only "problem" may be the blondies being of a denser, firmer texture at room temperature, but I don't think that will actually be a bad thing. Plus the cocoa flavor should work really well.
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Date: 2019-05-05 07:34 pm (UTC)Odd that your ovaries are hurting like that. Do you think it's due to needing your Mirena replaced? Mine recently started emitting a random sharp pain. I was thinking that maybe they're trying to ovulate. As long as they don't, I'm ok with it. I'm so close to my year of no monthlies. It's quite early but I'm more than ok with it. Like you, I never enjoyed my monthly [who does, really?]. I have endometriosis, so they were heavy & painful, even from the beginning. I remember being in so much pain that I'd be kneeling by my mom's bed crying & begging her to stay home from school but she never relented. Being at school was a whole other issue. The teachers never let us go to the bathroom. We only had a couple minutes between classes in a 3 level building, including outbuildings, so it was never enough time to incorporate a desperately needed bathroom break. I'd try waiting 'til I got to class then asking if I could go but even the female teachers weren't sympathetic [they were old though, so maybe they'd forgotten the struggle]. I'd go anyway. I did everything in my power not to create a more embarrassing situation. So yeah, I've basically had a hate/hate relationship with monthlies. But if it weren't for them, I wouldn't have had my kids. It's a mixed bag for sure.
Let me know how your butterscotch blondies turn out! Sounds yummy!
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Date: 2019-05-12 03:22 pm (UTC)I actually had it relatively easy as far as being allowed to stay home from school due to period agony, so I was grateful for that. The first day was always the worst, and I usually spent it sleeping, or trying to, clutching a hot water bottle and waiting until I could take my next dose of painkillers, which never actually killed the pain, but just made it not completely suck to be alive. By the time college came around they'd eased off some, but were still a week or so of Do Not Want.
The blondies were ... okaayyyy. The recipe needs some tweaking, or perhaps I overmixed the batter, but they came out kind of dense. The flavor was good but the texture was not great, and there was a slight separation of the pumpkin from everything else.